On Wednesday, 19 August 2026, on the occasion of the traditional Summer Festival organised by Enzo and Daniela Sermattei at Palmo Mare in Ronchi, Marina di Massa, I had the pleasure of presenting a selection of twelve of my works, some of which were being exhibited to the public for the first time, including After the Night, the Work Is Not Yet Done and The Suspended Stillness of Valletta.
For one evening, the long row of beach cabins was transformed into a small and original open-air gallery: twelve works, displayed one after another along the walkway, each individually illuminated against the blue walls and white cabin doors. As evening fell, the lights created an unusual and evocative setting, guiding visitors through the entire exhibition.
More than a hundred people, including regular guests of Palmo Mare and outside visitors, took part in the evening, made even more enjoyable by the clear sky and live music. The aperitif offered by Enzo, with sparkling wine, pappa al pomodoro, couscous, cold cuts and small cream-filled krapfen prepared by the Palmo Mare kitchen, completed an evening of art, encounters and relaxed conviviality by the sea.
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Period: One-off event on August 19, 2026, 9:00 PM – 12:00 AM
The Promo-Terr Association presents the interactive group exhibition “Ecce Homo Ecce Mare” at the Galleria Europa. Live painting and book presentation. By Redazione Versilia Post July 31, 2025
The theme concerns man as a human race and the sea as the ultimate expression of water, the source of life and growth. This exhibition features fourteen contemporary artists.
The exhibition, curated by the Promo-Terr Association, presented the artistic vision of these artists in a dynamic way. Indeed, it was not simply a display of static works to admire, but an interactive exhibition with the public through “live painting,” book presentations, and cultural events such as: “From Bonetti to Bonetti” on August 6, 2025, at 9:30 pm; “Incontri diVersi” on August 7, at 9:30 pm; and the presentation of the book “Cruditè” by Martina Madrigali on August 10, at 9:30 pm. Each event featured one or more of the artists featured, allowing the public to learn more about the individual participants in the exhibition, both during the meetings and by watching them paint a new painting live. This format is offered by the Promo-Terr association at every event. The exhibition is accompanied by a book-catalog introducing the artists and their works, interspersed with thoughts or poems by both prominent figures and anonymous thinkers. The themes of these short writings are, of course, the sea and humanity.
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Date: From Friday, August 2nd to 14th, 2025, at the Galleria Europa in Lido di Camaiore (LU)
The Promo-Terr Association, in collaboration with Tenuta Mariani, is launching and organizing the “Wine Artist” Painting Competition. The theme of the works submitted was: “Wine, the nature of Versilia (lake, coast, and countryside), and drinking in company.”
The purpose of the competition is to:
promote the combination of Art and Wine, highlighting artists and their works
conscious drinking
awareness of the cultural and landscape heritage of the Versilia area
the close relationship between the world of wine, culture, and art.
The selected works were included in the “Artisti diVino” catalog on the dedicated website www.artistadivino.eu, and the top three winning works of the competition will be used on the labels for Tenuta Mariani wines in 2025.
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Date: From Friday, May 2nd to September 5th, 2025, with a traveling location between the Savoia Restaurant in Viareggio and the Tenuta Mariani Cellars in Massaciuccoli (LU).
In Memories of Light, GPaolo takes the viewer on a pictorial journey through real places, inner visions and unexpected tales of fantasy. The sea, harbours, cities, solitary houses and wind-swept skies become fragments of memory, held on the canvas by light and the material texture of colour.
The urban and Mediterranean views evoke memories of lived experiences, while the portholes open onto imaginary worlds inhabited by animals caught in amusing and impossible situations. Reality and invention thus coexist within the same narrative universe, united by a curious gaze capable of recognising wonder both in everyday life and in dreams.
GPaolo
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Date: From July 22nd to August 9th, 2026, Meeting with the Artist on July 31st at 6:00 PM
Thus, Refraction becomes the silent tale of a paradox: a single fragment of imperfect glass is enough for an age-old city to appear new, for the everyday to be tinged with unreality, for a physical law to turn into visual poetry. In that encounter between light, matter and memory, the viewer is not merely looking at a landscape: they lean out over a dream that never quite comes into full focus, and it is precisely for this reason that it continues to enchant..
The work reflects on the way light alters what we see and, more profoundly, on the unstable nature of perception. Each image depends on the point of view, the material passing through it, and the experience of the observer.
GPaolo
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The artist GPaolo will participate with an in-depth analysis and related critical presentation hosted within the exhibition of the National Pavilion of Grenada at the 61st Venice Art Biennale, at the Spazio Berlendis.
The meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 4, 2026, at 4:00 PM, while the work will remain on display on November 4, 5, and 6, 2026.
There are artists who describe the world, and artists who teach us to look at it anew. In this exhibition, Fontanini and GPaolo create a journey in which reality is not merely represented, but illuminated by an additional light: femininity becomes overwhelming, the city turns into a vertical tension, architecture becomes prayer, the sea opens itself to storytelling, and human bonds take on the concrete form of protection and memory.
The works gathered here arise from different experiences — observation, travel, memory, poetic invention — yet they all converge in the same disposition of gaze: one that recognizes in the visible a place still capable of wonder. For this reason, the exhibition does not follow a single iconographic theme. Instead, it brings together skylines and cathedrals, flowering fields and marine depths, intimate scenes and unexpected apparitions, allowing the visitor to discover, step by step, a common thread.
Here, that thread is wonder. Not as an escape, but as a profound form of attention. In the paintings of Fontanini and GPaolo, the world remains recognizable and yet is transformed: an imperfect pane of glass alters an ancient city, a tourist “from another world” moves silently through New York, the Mediterranean comes alive with surprising presences, a grandfather protects a child from the wind, and a simple table of bread, wine, and cheese becomes an image of gratitude.
In this journey, painting does not confine reality within a definition; it reopens it. And it reminds us that truly seeing always means, in some measure, allowing ourselves to be involved.
GPaolo
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Period: From June 4 to June 11, 2026, with the opening on Friday, June 5 at 6:00 PM
The Galleria degli Artisti was founded in 1979 by Maria Salvi, a journalist and art critic with a keen eye for the cultural landscape of her time. Today, the gallery is meticulously managed by Emma Salvi, who continues its work, enriching it with a vibrant program of events and cultural initiatives.
was born as a refuge at a moment when everyday life is no longer enough, when a language capable of restoring depth to our gaze becomes necessary. Each work is an act of care, a form of beauty that nourishes the spirit. It does not erase scars, but makes them legible. It offers a pause from the noise and opens a fissure toward a more authentic part of our existence. Time expands, the superfluous scatters like dust in the wind, and what truly matters remains.
Each work becomes a passageway: the viewer does not remain outside. They enter. And in that entry, something simple and decisive happens. One recognizes oneself.
Not better, not different. More real.
“The visible is what we perceive, the invisible is what sustains us.”
Carla Pugliano
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Period: from July 3 to July 12, 2026,, Opening event on Saturday, July 4 at 4:30 PM
The splendid setting of Terni, an Umbrian town that preserves numerous treasures of Italy’s artistic heritage, hosts within the spaces of the Diocesan and Capitular Museum, the most important in the Umbria region, the contemporary art exhibition “INVISIBLE THRESHOLDS”, curated by Carla Pugliano, artist, artistic director of CathArt Gallery, and consultant for L’Atlante dell’Arte Contemporanea, Giunti Editions. Daniele Radini Tedeschi will be present as a guest, a renowned art critic, writer, and current curator of the 61st edition of the Venice Biennale Arte – Grenada Pavilion. The initiative, sponsored by the Municipality of Terni and addressed to Italian and international artists, was created in collaboration with Gruppo Start, CathArt Gallery, and the cultural association La Rosa dei Venti.
The Expositiva Art Prize—organized by EXPOSITIVA APS—was created from the desire to promote contemporary art as a tool for renewal, capable of generating new ideas and inspiration.
Artists, free from thematic constraints, can express themselves through elements, images, concepts, and materials that represent individual thought, their world, and their unique and subjective artistic sensibility.
The Prize is hosted at Castello Isimbardi in Castello d’Agogna (PV), dating back to the 13th century: a prestigious venue that offers an important showcase for emerging and creative artists.
The artworks exhibited within the spaces of Castello Isimbardi are set in a place rich in centuries of history, where each one engages in dialogue with memory and the past.
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Dates: from March 7–15, 2026, with the opening on Saturday, March 7 at 5:00 PM
On this occasion I will take part in the group exhibition “Forme d’Arte – Sculpture & Painting”, hosted at the Sala del San Leone in the heart of Pietrasanta. The exhibition brings different artistic languages into dialogue— from sculpture to painting—united by the desire to portray contemporary life through material, light, and each artist’s personal sensitivity.
Pietrasanta has long been a symbolic place for art: a crossroads of marble, foundries, artisan workshops and galleries, it has welcomed and inspired generations of artists, building over time an international reputation as an open-air creative laboratory. The initiative is organized by Promo-Terr and is held under the patronage of the Municipality of Pietrasanta. I will present four oil-on-canvas works: “Dopo la notte, il lavoro non è ancora finito” (2024), “I guerrieri della luce” (2024), “Il Nonno e il Nipotino” (2025) and “Rifrazione” (2025).
TALK AND DEBATE: ETHICAL USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN PAINTING
On January 24th at 5:00 PM, at the exhibition venue and in agreement with the organizers, I have scheduled a talk and a closing debate on this topic.
The goal is to demonstrate how AI can enter the painting process without distorting authorship and what rules to adopt out of respect for the public, colleagues, and the market.
In some of my works, I have used AI to generate a basis for study or to explore compositional solutions before painting; painting is all about execution, correction, material, and choice.
During my talk, I will refer to the painting on display, “Grandfather and Grandson.” This painting was born from a dream I was half asleep. The image was surprisingly clear: not a vague idea, but a precise scene, with a certain light and a certain gesture. I described that vision in detail and used artificial intelligence as a support tool during the study phase: to explore some variations of composition and atmosphere, not to “paint the painting for me.” The painting itself was then an entirely manual process: color choices, corrections, material, and above all the attempt to preserve the original emotion of the dream. For me, the ethical use lies here: AI as a rapid laboratory to test possibilities, while maintaining transparency and accountability for the final work.
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Dates: From January 10 to February 4, 2026, daily from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm (closed on Mondays), with the opening on Saturday, January 10 at 4:30 pm.
During the evening of Saturday, 24 January, Promo-Terr organized a brief talk by GianPaolo Macario on “The ethical use of Artificial Intelligence in painting.” During the session, around ten artists discussed and exchanged views on this topic, which is expected to have a significant impact on the profession in the coming years.
There is an ancient word, desiderium, which in Latin denotes the aching absence of something loved and far away. Yet within that word also lives a gaze turned skyward, searching for missing stars, for possibilities still unseen. DESIDERIUM is an exhibition that explores desire as a creative force, as an impulse toward what is not there—or not there yet. The works selected will chart emotional maps: they will press toward an inner elsewhere, oscillating between nostalgia and visionary tension. Painting, sculpture, installation, photography, performance—the admitted art forms—become instruments for probing absence, but also for evoking new bearings. The missing stars become symbols of what our time lacks: meaning, care, beauty. Desire as memory, as vision, as the language of the body, of matter, of light. From it emerge works that offer no answers, but questions: intimate, vertiginous, necessary. “Desiderium” is thus a constellation of fertile absences, an exhibition space that becomes an interstice between the real and the hypothetical. An invitation to desire without measure. And never to stop searching the sky.
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Date: January 31st to February 7th, 2026, with inauguration on Saturday, January 31st at 6:00 PM
